Availability

[Mark]

Any word on availability of the product as yet?? If it is only an installer issue, I'll take the current version and sort out the install myself.

Mark

[James Park]

Mark,
Accurate Sights does work well, but I get just sufficient instances where there are installation challenges to annoy me. What is especially annoying is that I am using dead-standard Microsoft Visual Basic, the VB packaging and deployment software, with no non-standard mods, and I have the latest version of VB with all the latest fixes (so by rights it should work well). Hence, the small number of challenging installations I find are Bill Gates' doing, and not always easily fixable (or reproduceable on my PC). Aside from that, most installations are easy and work well.
What I have done is to include a substantial amount of debugging capability in the code and tried to make it so that errors do not crash it, but never-the-less I still find that Microsoft creates some challenges that are difficult to deal with. For example, at one stage I had a version that simply would not install on Leigh Cornish's PC, but easily installed without any problems at all on many other PC's (using the same physical CD). I was able to look very carefully at Leigh's PC, and as far as I could tell it had nothing that should make installation a challenge - I simply could not reproduce the problem on other machines and hence it was difficult to deal with.

[Mark]

Well I'd like a copy but Marcus has removed it from the Urban site - can I get a copy directly from you ??

[recurve boy]

Java. Everyone who has a browser has a JVM.

[James Park]

recurve boy,
Yes, that would do it.

[Mark]

recurve boy - maybe not since Microsoft pulled Java support from some OS's thanks to the legal fallout with sun. Another component that would need to be downloaded and installed. The VB packaging should be successful on almost all machines - it certainly was on mine.

Jim

Excellent product - thanks

Mark

[recurve boy]

Microsoft droping Java support? That's not really possible ... unless Windows does a checksum on executable binaries before running them ...

You wouldn't need to download anything, JVM's are pretty much standard with every browser. Everybody has one.

I know Java isn't the most efficient language around but it wouldn't have to be to run Accurate Sights. It would also expand Jim's market to all those nix users without even trying and make updating much simpler.

[recurve boy]

Nope, I'm wrong. I just realised that new versions of Windows won't/don't have a JVM ...

[wiggles]

So, any idea as to when it will be back on the market?